Geron Corporation announced the appointments of Sharon McBain as Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs and Lynn Bodarky as Vice President, Business Development. These appointments further enhance the Company’s oncology expertise to advance its current and longer-term corporate objectives. As Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, Ms. McBain will be responsible for global regulatory strategy development, oversight of regulatory submissions, and interactions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and other ex-U.S. health authorities. She will guide the strategic regulatory direction of the imetelstat development program, including assuming a leadership role in the achievement of the Company’s objective to conduct an End of Phase 2 meeting with the FDA by the end of the first quarter of 2020 for relapsed/refractory myelofibrosis (MF). Ms. McBain most recently was Senior Director, Global Regulatory Leader, Oncology at Janssen Research and Development, LLC (Janssen) where she led the global regulatory development strategy for hematology-oncology drug candidates, including imetelstat. As Vice President, Business Development, Ms. Bodarky will support Geron’s longer-term corporate objectives of partnering the ex-U.S. commercialization rights for imetelstat, as well as building a leading hematology-oncology franchise through the identification and potential acquisition or in-licensing of attractive oncology product candidates. Ms. Bodarky most recently was President of LMB Consulting, LLC where she provided corporate strategy and end-to-end business development advisory services to biopharmaceutical companies.